{"id":861,"date":"2012-04-09T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2012-04-09T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:44:30","slug":"windows-31-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/861\/windows-31-turns-20","title":{"rendered":"Windows 3.1 Turns 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/253287\/windows_31_twenty_years_later.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/windows31_anniversary_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 3.1 - Twenty Years Later at PC World\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago this month, Microsoft released version 3.1 of its famous Windows operating system.  At the time, however, Windows could not stand alone as a true OS by itself.  Instead, it served as a sophisticated graphical shell that ran on top of command line MS-DOS.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 3.1 introduced many innovations to the Windows product line, including TrueType fonts, baked-in multimedia support, and even the first appearance of the dreaded Windows Registry (really!).<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of this anniversary, I produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/253287\/windows_31_twenty_years_later.html\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow outlining some of Windows 3.1&#8217;s most important improvements and features<\/a> for PC World.  If nothing else, the custom screenshots should serve as a trip down memory lane for many folks.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/253287\/windows_31_twenty_years_later.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read &#8220;Windows 3.1: Twenty Years Later&#8221; at PCWorld.com<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago this month, Microsoft released version 3.1 of its famous Windows operating system. At the time, however, Windows could not stand alone as a true OS by itself. Instead, it served as a sophisticated graphical shell that ran on top of command line MS-DOS. Windows 3.1 introduced many innovations to the Windows product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}